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THE GAY TEEN-BOY ROMANCE COMIC BELOVED BY WOMEN JAPAN

A Brief History of LGBTQ+ MangaAlthough homosexualy Japan was never crimalized to the extent  was  untri such as the USA or the Uned Kgdom, members of the LGBTQ+ muny still face discrimatn on a cultural and social level wh very limed legal protectn. For this reason, is much more mon to fd an English translatn of some of the more mastream shojo manga om the 1970s that we mentned earlier than is to fd a gay romance manga om the 1980s. The term "Bara" ed to refer to gay manga wrten by and for gay men back the 80s, but that term has sce been emed outdated and accurate.

Instead, manga that is specifilly wrten by and for gay men are currently referred to as "geii", "gei manga", or "gay ics/manga". Gengoroh Tagame is a gay mangaka who has been publishg manga for queer magaz for s.

For an si sop on gay manga and BL check out this transcript om the “Gay Comics Art Japan" panel hosted by the Toronto Comic Arts Ftival: TCAF 2015 – Gengoroh Tagame Talks Gay Manga, “Bara, ” BL and Snlatn. Boy's Love and yuri protagonists seldom refer to themselv or their partners as homosexual, or gay, queer, lbian, bisexual, etc., nor do they typilly explore the reali of livg life as a queer person. Fumi Yoshaga's seri, What Did You Eat Yterday?, which follows a gay uple livg morn day Tokyo, was nomated for the first ever Manga Taishō award 2008 and won the 2019 Kodansha Manga Award.

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